The Lighter Side of Technology

Microsoft Surface is a new technology using a giant table-like display, users are able to draw, interact with media, and use another new technology called domino tagging, in which a real-life object on the computer’s surface is identified and becomes an on-screen object that can be interacted with. Watch the video after the jump!

In the demo above, you see the full finger touch interaction with the device and the external objects placed on it.

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International Business Machines Corp. said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion over the next four years in a new ‘Internet of Things’ unit, aiming to sell its expertise in gathering and making sense of the surge in real-time data. The Armonk, New York-based technology company said its services will be based remotely in the cloud, and offer companies ways to make use of the new and multiplying sources of data such as building sensors, smartphones and home appliances to enhance their own products. For its first major partnership, IBM said a unit of the Weather Co. will move its weather data services onto IBM’s cloud, so that customers can use the data in tandem with IBM’s analytics tools. As a result, IBM is hoping that companies will be able to combine live weather forecasting with a range of business data, so companies can quickly adapt to customer buying patterns or supply chain issues connected to the weather.

IT'S TODAY !!!! “How to help remove the big risks from big data.” Mar 30, 2015, 11:00ET. Register@ http://bit.ly/IBMProtectBigData1 Big data can offer big opportunities, but you still must make sure that sensitive data remains protected. The challenges of preventing a breach have become even more complex with more data moving into the cloud, the pervasiveness of mobile computing and increased compliance requirements. To keep potential incidents from becoming headline-worthy breaches, you need to take a proactive approach to security. If you don’t have the right security and privacy controls in place, you may be exposing the business to unnecessary risks. '“How to help remove the big risks from big data.” Mar 30, 2015, 11:00ET. Register@ http://bit.ly/IBMProtectBigData1 Big data can offer big opportunities, but you still must make sure that sensitive data remains protected. The challenges of preventing a breach have become even more complex with more data moving into the cloud, the pervasiveness of mobile computing and increased compliance requirements. To keep potential incidents from becoming headline-worthy breaches, you need to take a proactive approach to security. If you don’t have the right security and privacy controls in place, you may be exposing the business to unnecessary risks.'

Maxime Gaudet's hyperlapse experiment video of Paris lets you jump all over the city in 3 minutes. The video moves at such a frenetic pace that the feel of the video doesn't quite match up with the feel of the City of Love but it's still a lot of fun to watch because it feels like you're teleporting all over the place.

Join EarthHour today Saturday, switch off the lights at 8:30 pm local time:

EARTH HOURwww.earthhour.orgAs Earth Hour sweeps across twenty-four time zones and six continents on 28th March 8:30 PM local time, be the first to see the Earth Hour celebrations from New York to Nairobi to Paris!

World leaders, current and former, were due to attend the state funeral on Sunday of Singapore’s first prime minister and founding father Lee Kuan Yew. The Indonesian president Joko Widodo, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe will attend as will the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott. Former leaders, including US president Bill Clinton and US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, will also be among mourners. More than 1.2 million Singaporeans have formally paid their respects to Lee: nearly half a million queued to file past his body lying in state at parliament house, while more than 800,000 attended community tribute sites around the island.

It's Incredibly Easy To Lock A Pilot Out Of A Plane's Cockpit At a press conference earlier this week, a French prosecutor stated that the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 most likely deliberately crashed the plane. The co-pilot was alone when the aircraft began its slow descent and the door to the cockpit had "locked automatically." Many questions are being asked about how the cockpit door locking mechanism works and why the captain was unable to get back in.